They’re at their peaks.
Ethan Hawke’s new show “The Lowdown” is from “Reservation Dogs” creator Sterlin Harjo – and co-star Kyle MacLachlan told The Post that he saw echoes of David Lynch in it.
“I started my career under David’s watchful eye, starting with ‘Dune’ and then ‘Blue Velvet,’” MacLachlan 66, told The Post.
Lynch died at 78 in January after a health battle with emphysema.
“David was my director and we obviously became friends, and that carried on through the years,” the “Twin Peaks” star said about the show’s legendary creator.
He added, “It was more just the experience of being in the worlds that he created. Not only that, but also the environment on set, which was very important to him.”
MacLachlan added that, similar to Lynch, Harjo, who helms “The Lowdown,” has a set that’s “full of joy.”
“The creative energy was never just following the script,” he recalled about Lynch’s sets.
“And there was always a way to sort of move something and make it better….I had to draw a lot of similarities between David and Sterlin, just in terms of their creative process. Different worlds, obviously, but the process was similar.”
Airing Tuesdays (9 p.m. on FX and the next day on Hulu), “The Lowdown” follows Lee (Hawke), an eccentric man in Tula, OK, who works in a bookstore when he’s not sleuthing to expose local corruption.
Lee gets in hot water when he writes an exposé on the powerful Washberg family, including Betty Jo (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and politician Donald (MacLachlan). Meanwhile, private investigator Marty (Keith David) is tailing Lee.
David, who has over 400 acting credits including “The Thing” and “Community,” told The Post, “I’ve always wanted to play a TV detective and whew, there it is! And, I love Ethan, and getting a chance to play with him was also a bonus.”
David previously appeared in Hawke’s show “The Good Lord Bird” and his iconic 1994 movie “Reality Bites.”
“And, I’ve had great deep admiration for Kyle [MacLachlan] and Jean [Tripplehorn] for a very long time,” he added.
Tripplehorn, meanwhile, told The Post, “As an actor, when you find out your character was a former rodeo queen, hello! I mean, it’s kind of all right there.”
The “Waterworld” actress confessed that she initially worried she was playing her character “too big” because “I really didn’t want her to be a caricature.”
However, in her hotel room, “I kept landing on the Cowboy Channel. Who knew?”
After watching real rodeo queens on TV, Tripplehorn explained, “I called up our costume designer, and I said, ‘I think, I think I’m underplaying her.’ They are big as life, and sassy. She’s kind of character gold, for an actor.”
